Originally Posted by Lucky Day
Its Dec 21, 2012? Is anyone still here? I noticed its been awfully quiet on the forums today and traffic coming home was pretty tight. I though maybe I missed the Rapture.

There was this place in France I heard about…

It's just superstitious nonsense. It does make for good books and movies though.

Originally Posted by Couchpotato
Enlighten us ol great one. Since many cultures and civilizations have always predicted the end times yet it has never come true. Seems there foresight didn't even save them.

This statement makes me suspect that in 10,000 years someone will point to one of our clocks they dug up and talk about how its a crazy end of he world prediction and not just a 10,000 year clock.

Originally Posted by jhwisner
This statement makes me suspect that in 10,000 years someone will point to one of our clocks they dug up and talk about how its a crazy end of he world prediction and not just a 10,000 year clock.

Never waste the opportunity for an apocalypse prediction?

pibbur who will not be here in 100 years, unless he sets a really large age-record.

— “ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.“ (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)

The Apocalypse and "Rapture" is Christian.
There's no Apocalypse or "Rapture" in Mayan culture or in Mayan calendars.
It isn't even in Judaism but it was a popular belief in Hebrew culture around year 1.

There are a couple of cultures that have the concept of "ages" in which one age is replaced by another.

— Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. - John F Kennedy
An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind. - Mahatma Gandhi
The world is my country. To do good is my religion. My mind is my own church. This simple creed is all we need to enjoy peace on earth. - Thomas Paine

— “ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.“ (E.F.Schumacher, Economist, Source)

Originally Posted by joxer
We're closing to the breakpoint of Mayan calendar that was declared as the doomsday by ignorant murderers who destroyed mayan culture. NASA is obviously waiting for the "doomsday" date to share the findings as mayan calendar marks just the breaktrough in human society.

But okay, internet memory tends to last a week, max two, and shock news sell better than sex, so no surprise there.

Originally Posted by Couchpotato
Enlighten us ol great one. Since many cultures and civilizations have always predicted the end times yet it has never come true. Seems there foresight didn't even save them.

I was just trying to be funny and pointing out that until very, very recently no one could actually read ancient Mayan. That's the last few pages pf the Dresden Codex which I think points out to some disaster but doesn't mention a date at the end of the long calendar but obviously I can't find an actual translation of it.

Stuart was a child prodigy and received a genuis grant. I've read a few of the books by Michael Coe on the subject but you have to find them in the Social Science section not in history.

You are right Jemy, the Jews believed in a coming Messiah to lead them against the Roman empire and the resurrection of the dead. The rapture and the church was a new idea. I'm just being silly here, I'm not actually trying to connect them with any non-existent Mayan belief.

I showed this one other time and caught Alrik's interest. Did you ever get to the museum?

I think some people need to lighten up, This whole thing is just for fun.

Originally Posted by joxer
I'm not sure what is this thread about. Didn't I post a month ago:

But okay, internet memory tends to last a week, max two, and shock news sell better than sex, so no surprise there.

Ah, ok - I made the same joke there (I'm not trying to shock anyone). I thought someone did start a thread but a search on Maya only brought something else from last year - or I didn't make the connection from the title. I guess I'm very tired from work.

Originally Posted by Lucky Day
You are right Jemy, the Jews believed in a coming Messiah to lead them against the Roman empire and the resurrection of the dead. The rapture and the church was a new idea. I'm just being silly here, I'm not actually trying to connect them with any non-existent Mayan belief.

I just wonder what nations without a Christian history think about the whole 2012 affair, considering how inaccurate the interpretion actually were in the first place. Then again, I haven't heard many taking it seriously but more as a joke.

— Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. - John F Kennedy
An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind. - Mahatma Gandhi
The world is my country. To do good is my religion. My mind is my own church. This simple creed is all we need to enjoy peace on earth. - Thomas Paine

Originally Posted by ToddMcF2002
I always figured that if the Mayans were so good and predicting the end of the world they could have predicted the end of their world?

Well according to a special I saw on The History Channel, the aliens who told them when the rogue planet would strike Earth didn't tell them anything more than that. Obviously now that it has come and passed, this proved the existence of alien visitors with a sense of humor.